dí​bǐ

reed pen

  • created sense approved 荻笔/荻筆 · dí​bǐ · reed pen — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    荻笔 / 荻筆

    dí​bǐ

    reed pen

    A pen made from a reed stalk, often associated with historical accounts of scholars practicing calligraphy on sand or dirt when paper was unavailable

    荻 (bound) → 荻 · dí · reed 笔 (literal) → 笔/筆 · bǐ · pen

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense